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Early Stages of AIDS
Early stages of AIDS
HIV infection is slowly growing so until the symptoms of the disease begin to appear. The early symptoms that can indicate that a person begins to experience AIDS is as follows:
Weight loss (greater than 10 percent of body weight)
Weak
- Chronic diarrhea is more than one month
- Chronic cough is more than one month
- Wound or rash that feels pain
- The cut on her lip that does not heal
- Fever and night sweats
- Swollen glands in the neck, armpits and groin (immediately after infection)
- Thrush (a white rash) in the mouth or genitals
- Recurrent infections in the throat and ear
- Recurrent shingles
Treatment of Diarrhea
Although not usually dangerous, diarrhea has caused millions of deaths worldwide, mainly as a result of dehydration. The diarrhea of various causes, is also associated with a reduced consumption of alimento.18 For that reason, the main treatment for diarrhea involves the consumption of adequate amounts of water to replace lost fluids, preferably mixed with electrolytes to recover certain essential minerals and nutrients. In most cases an additional treatment or medical advice unnecessary.
The general treatment of diarrhea can be schematized into 4 phases:
- Correction of the deficit of water, electrolytes and acid-base balance. In mild or moderate, should be provided orally: the effectiveness of oral rehydration and tolerance to the reintroduction of diet and weight gain is higher compared to intravenous hydration. In the mildest cases (in which power is maintained), ingestion of liquid supplements in the form of water, teas or soft drinks may be sufficient, if food has been removed, you can use different oral solutions designed to treat diarrhea infectious. The solutions should not be used for athletes, because they are hyperosmotic.
- Proper nutrition: against some established beliefs, in most cases will not need to set a strict bowel rest, the withdrawal of nutrition in children can lead to a daily loss of 1-2% of body weight (not counting fecal losses) which can be life threatening. Although intestinal absorption is reduced in diarrhea is not completely abolished, and absorbed a non-negligible proportion of immediate principles. In fact, patient outcomes are better nourished than those who fast (lower fecal losses and shorter time). In most cases, diarrhea yields in a few days with simple measures such as avoiding foods that increase the volume of feces and intestinal motility (vegetables, skins of fruits or vegetables, whole grain cereal …). It is also recommended intake of certain microorganisms that help to restore intestinal flora, such as yogurt with bifidus or yeast preparations such as Perenterol.19 On the other hand, the general condition of the bowel, avoid milk and dairy products, because often a shortfall of disaccharidases, which prevents the digestion of lactose and worsen diarrhea.
- Symptomatic treatment of diarrhea and accompanying symptoms: There are some prescription antidiarrheal activity, which may be beneficial, but may be contraindicated in some casos.20
- Specific treatment agent or factor responsible for diarrhea: in some cases it may be advisable to use antibiotics.
History of Diarrhea
Diarrhea-Ancient Greek διάρροια (diárrhoia), ie διά (day) “through” and ῥέω (rhein) ‘current or flow “-is an alteration of
stool in terms of volume, fluidity or frequency relationship to abnormal physiological one which leads to low absorption of fluids and nutrients and can be accompanied by pain, fever, nausea, vomiting, weakness or loss of appetite. In addition to the great loss of water is diarrheal stools, patients , usually children, lose dangerous amounts of important salts, electrolytes and other nutrients. According to figures from the World Health Organization (WHO), diarrhea is one of the leading causes of death in Third World countries, intimately associated with dehydration.
Diet for Gastritis
One of the most common illnesses, I am sure that at some point all we have suffered, is gastritis. That feeling of heartburn, nausea, vomiting, headache, loss of appetite and dizziness, surely agree with me that is very annoying and not pleasant.
But the biggest problem is not when occasionally suffer from gastritis, but the worst part is carrying those suffering from chronic gastritis, in such cases we must take action in relation to food more stringent, that is, we follow a diet for gastritis.
In cases of chronic gastritis symptoms worsen. Appear diarrhea or constipation, feeling of being very full all the time, bad taste in the mouth, increased saliva flow and is often very little urine.
Diarrhea
Diarrhea is a symptom that occurs quite frequently in the population. It is, in fact, one of the reasons for consulting primary care physician more frequently. In many cases, appears in the so-called epidemics or “pass.” We speak of an epidemic when the number of patients with symptoms of gastroenteritis (or any other disease in which presupposes an infectious cause) is higher than by chance to hit. To understand this term, perhaps the most illustrative is the epidemic of influenza: Few if any cases during the year except the month, or month and a half in which it appears (approximately December to February). And during that time, a high percentage of the population is affected.
In the case of diarrhea, these epidemics or raisins, which used to be in the hot summer months, more and more frequently we see out of them. The reason is the mildness of our climate and, of course, global warming, which now makes for more months, we benefit from a temperature typical of summer months. By itself, diarrhea continues to be a symptom rather nonspecific, in that it may be a reflection of many pathologies, from very different backgrounds. However, nature is wise, and protective, in the sense that the vast majority of cases of diarrhea seen in health centers have a viral origin, and therefore quite benign.